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INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
In the Borough of Shoreditch there are 15 infant welfare clinics. Seven clinics
are held at the Model Welfare Centre, 210, Kingsland Road, and the others are held
at Hoxton Market Mission (two), Hoxton Hall (two), St. Helen's (two), Haggerston
Road (one) and Harbour Lights (one).
The total first attendances of infants during 1934 was 1,087, as compared with
1,135 in 1933. The figure for the total attendances was 16,163 as compared with
17,812 in 1933. The first attendances of children was 394 against 418 in 1933.
The total attendances of children between one and five years was 19,059, against
20,252 for 1933. The average number of attendances per infant in 1934 was 15.0
and the corresponding figure for 1933 was 15.7. Practically all the children were
seen by a doctor on at least one occasion.
The number of first examinations of infants was 1,058 (97.3 per cent.) of the total
infants who attended on at least one occasion. The corresponding figure for children
between one and five years was 365, which represents 90.1 per cent. of the total
children of these ages who were examined on at least one occasion by one of the
assistant Medical Officers for Maternity and Child Welfare.
The work of the clinics proceeded as usual during the year and no detailed
comments on their functions are called for. The total number of children who
attended at the centres during the year, who at the end of the year were under
one year of age, was 1,071, and the corresponding number between one and five years
was 2,943, hence the total number of children under five years of age who were on
the registers at the end of the year was 4,014. Of this total 879 were referred to
hospital by clinic doctors during the year. This represents 21.9 per cent. of the total
infants and children on the register and is a fairly high figure.
SPECIAL CLINICS.
Artificial Sunlight Clinic.